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...first submitted to the city's Planning Board, which will hold a hearing on the petition, Geer said. No date for the hearing has yet been announced, he added. The board will then make a report which is to be in the hands of council members before a vote...
...There is, however, an unfortunate habit of providing it the afternoon of the vote," Geer said. "We're hoping to avoid that situation...
Last week, by a vote of 7 to 2, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Sokolow's detention on drug charges, in an opinion that granted federal agents broad discretion to use "drug-courier profiles" to question and search travelers at airports. Writing for the court, Chief Justice William Rehnquist conceded - that Sokolow's behavior could have been "consistent with innocent travel." But "taken together," his actions elicited "reasonable suspicion." Concluded Rehnquist: "The fact that these factors may be set forth in a 'profile' does not somehow detract from their evidentiary significance." Dissenting Justice Thurgood Marshall saw things quite differently...
SWAPO is still expected to win a majority in next November's elections. But to gain complete control over the assembly that will write Namibia's new constitution, a party must capture two-thirds of the total vote, and there is considerable doubt that SWAPO can do that. It will face at least six opponents, the strongest being the moderate Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, a mixed-race consortium of ethnically based parties with considerable appeal to Namibia's 80,000 whites. Says Alliance Chairman Dirk Mudge, a white former Finance Minister: "It won't be a SWAPO landslide, believe me." Last...
Botha told Parliament he will shortly set an election date for later this year, probably by September, following which he will bestow the seal of the republic on his successor. Since the National Party is certain to retain power and De Klerk has already won the party's vote of confidence, he will become the new chief executive. Tired of the brooding, dictatorial presence of Botha, few will shed tears for the departure of the Great Crocodile...